AMA Art Winter 2020-21: Albany Museum of Art Members Magazine

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FALL IN LOVE WITH ART

The 3rd annual AMA ChalkFest took on a whole new look for 2020 in response to health guidance because of the pandemic. Online contests were preceded by a Nov 7-8 kickoff celebration at Pretoria Fields Brewery in downtown Albany. On Oct 24, kids had a magical time at the Young Wizards Party at the AMA.

ON THE COVER | Shanequa Gay, Uninterrupted, I Can Give Birth Over and Over and Over Again (detail), 2020, mural

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FROM THE DIRECTOR THE ART OF COURAGE I am reminded daily—as I am sure you are, too—of the courage of those people in our community who are making a real substantive difference in the lives of others. These include a range of folks, from intensive care unit staff at our local hospital to those who remain bravely resilient in caring for the health, physical and emotional, of family, friends, and even strangers.

I admire those of us who continue to embrace positivity, even though we may be separated from loved ones near and far. This pandemic has tested our mettle and, for the most part, I see mental toughness, tempered by empathy, most places I look.

Andrew James Wulf, Ph.D. Executive Director

At times like these, I draw upon wisdom from unnumbered traditions and perspectives—I get it where I can find it! Today, I am comforted by the words of Viktor Frankl, the renowned psychiatrist who survived years of daily horror in Nazi death camps.

Frankl, from his own and others’ first-hand experiences, understood that individuals can discover in themselves in times of unprecedented life challenges the last of the human freedoms—"to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” While 2020 has proven to be one of the more unorthodox years of all our lives, I am reminded of one empirical truth: those of us who live and work for others, with a purpose, in order to create a better world through caring and creative acts, have the capacity to discover new meaning. As many struggle to find meaning these days, museums innovate daily to meet this communal need.

The AMA continues to stay relevant for all our visitors and stakeholders. This is done through our wonderful staff, volunteers, and board members whose work makes possible our ability to provide to others the opportunity to experience the creative in our museum, from our ongoing public programs to our cutting-edge exhibitions with up-and-coming artists whose visions offer us alternative answers to the questions we all face.

The AMA is not a place of privilege nor a rarefied atmosphere for a select few.

It remains one of the few places where all can find themselves, feel at home and comfortable, and see and be seen. From our perspective, there always shall be a spirit of freedom, joy and happiness all can enjoy at the AMA. Thank you for continuing to be a part of the AMA. Please continue to stay safe and courageous. We can’t wait to see you again soon!

With warmest wishes in this season of gratitude, Andrew James “Andy” Wulf, Ph.D., Executive Director

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ON VIEW Nov 3, 2020 – Feb 20, 2021 | Haley Gallery

ON THE WALL Murals by Amanda Jane Burk, Shanequa Gay, David Hale and Chris Johnson | Paintings by Sarah Emerson

The walls of the Haley Gallery have been transformed into enormous canvases for the exhibition On the Wall, which includes murals by Amanda Jane Burk, Shanequa Gay, David Hale and Chris Johnson. Complementing the murals are paintings by Sarah Emerson from her O, Smithereens series.

David and Crow Hale, of Athens, created this vibrant alligator.

On the Wall opened Nov 3, 2020 and continues through Feb 20, 2021.

“Wall painting has been central to culture and environment from the beginnings of human civilization,” AMA Guest Curator Didi Dunphy said,

adding she wanted to acknowledge and show respect for the Muscogee Creek people who are native to Southwest Georgia.

“Murals reflect the place and people, a piece of their story, images of the now and here,” Dunphy said. “Not

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Chris Johnson, associate professor of art at Andrew College, and his students created this mural “postcard” that pays homage to Albany.

lasting, still and unmovable monuments, murals express this moment and how we got to this place in this time through dynamic artist interpretation. These works in the galleries are grand endeavors and temporal. How wondrous it is that we can contemplate this scale, color, image and subject.”

Each mural is reflective of the artist’s style and thoughts. Hale’s work—a massive and colorful stylized alligator—brings to mind Native American art with its vibrant colors, while also focusing on a creature that is native to the Flint River eco-system. Hale and his family reside in a creek-side cottage at Athens, where he and his family—Love Hawk—engage in creating art.

Gay’s giant mural, titled Uninterrupted, I Can Give Birth Over and Over and Over Again, is a giant Rorschach Test with repeated images of a woman, evoking thoughts of reproduction and repetition.

“The piece is basically about creation and time, and the ability to give birth,” Gay, a multimedia artist from Atlanta, said. “I’m interested in old world, antiquated thought processes. I borrowed from the indigenous mindset of ‘all are thou,’ meaning animals and women are just as holy as men, and the thought process that creation can repeat itself over and over again, that we’re constantly in a process of giving birth and time is continuing and circular.”

Gay said she related those ideas “through the Rorschach Test in which you may see things that someone else may not see. The way black women have been perceived through mainstream media, I’m looking for ways to create counter narratives to that.”

Johnson, a mural painter from Columbus who is an associate professor of art at Andrew College in Cuthbert, has created more than two dozen murals, including the one on Lincoln Elementary Magnet

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School in Albany that was made possible through a Vibrant Communities Grant the AMA received from the Georgia Council for the Arts.

He created a large Albany “postcard” that highlights the community’s roots in the river system, as well as Albany’s history.

“I reflected on my time in Albany when I was young and growing up,” Johnson said. “I lived on the Marine Corps base, and they have this great wildlife refuge. I spent hours and hours each day out there. This is based on the river, which is a huge part of the identity of Albany. I picked animals and things that are around the river and the wildlife refuge on the Marine Corps base, and the postcard is filled with historical figures, places of importance and cultural icons from Albany.”

Burk, a printmaker who lives and works in Athens, focused on idioms and colloquialisms in her mural, which is reminiscent of the marks she makes when creating a woodcut print. “I liked the idea of making a mural that had the mark making of my printmaking,” she said. “A lot of my printmaking is very graphic in nature, almost posterized, because I do a lot of screenprinting, but also a lot of relief printing and woodcut printing.

Shanequa Gay, of Atlanta, created Uninterrupted, I Can Give Birth Over and Over and Over Again, evoking thoughts of reproduction and repetition.

Wait Wait What, 2019, acrylic and rhinestones on canvas, is one of seven paintings by Atlanta artist Sarah Emerson (below) on view in the Haley Gallery.

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Amanda Jane Burk, an Athens printmaker, said her obsession with idioms led her to create this mural for the On the Wall exhibition.

“I became kind of obsessed with the idea that they (the idioms) are so commonplace that people don’t finish the whole phrase anymore. I decided to illustrate the idioms. I had a list and narrowed it down to the few I put in this mural. What I find interesting about idioms is they are very visual. If you had to learn the English language and you came across an idiom, I would think it would be difficult to understand the meaning behind it. The meaning is not the same as what’s implied.”

The exhibition includes seven paintings by Sarah Emerson, an Atlanta artist who teaches at Agnes Scott College in Decatur.

”Emerson’s works dive into contemporary landscape and how it is transformed by human intervention and natural phenomenon,” Dunphy noted. “Each painting abandons the peaceful landscape horizon in order to reassemble eco debris detached from any stable ground. These highly stylized paintings contain images of mud and pollutant spills, flowers, smoke, disembodied eyes, and limbs that jut out from the clouds of dust and destruction.

“Emerson’s camouflage of beautiful colors explores themes that reflect on the fragility of life, the futility of earthly pleasures, and the disintegration of our natural landscape.”

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ON VIEW Nov 3, 2020 – Feb 20, 2021 | West Gallery

ESCAPE PLAN Installation by Elinor Saragoussi

Escape Plan, an installation

by Athens artist and musician Elinor Saragoussi, is a site-specific work created for the AMA West Gallery.

Visitors entering the West Gallery at the Albany Museum of Art are finding themselves transported into a fantastical environment peopled by equally fanciful characters in Elinor Saragoussi’s installation Escape Plan. The exhibition, which was designed specifically for the West Gallery, continues through Feb 20, 2021.

“A museum is a repository of history, reverence and the object,” AMA Guest Curator Didi Dunphy said. “It is rare to have a museum jump out of the confines of this definition to present a laboratory-like expression of the artistic endeavor. We are so very thrilled to commission Eli Saragoussi to create this site-specific work for the West Gallery at AMA. This opportunity provides the museumgoer a look into the working artist’s practice.”

The bright and colorful installation belies an underlying dark uneasiness.

“As I become more and more infatuated with the exercise of building my own reality through artistic creation, Escape Plan is yet another attempt to realize the fantasy I yearn to inhabit,” Saragoussi says. “With this installation, I have explored a particular ‘pocket universe’—the domain of the hooded giants.”

The hooded denizens, inspired by her mother’s recent brain surgery and her own insecurities, reside in bright, whimsical landscape augmented by an ambient soundscape created by Saragoussi’s musician partner Max Boyd. She said the “sweetly sordid” imagery lures in the viewer for the more melancholic subtext. In an age when experiences are so often virtual, Saragoussi says she is striving to create work that, however briefly, draws the audience out of its own reality. It is a journey that should be experienced in real life, not online, she says.

“I believe that this juxtaposition of the playful and dark translated through detailed craft creates something that feels special and is best experienced in person, something that cannot be replicated in a virtual environment,” she said. “For me, the artistic process is a quiet act of revolt against the contemporary culture of fast-paced, disposable content.”

A Denver, Colo., native, Saragoussi is based in Athens, where she creates art in a variety of media and is a musician with two bands Baby Tony and the Teenies, and Sicky Vicky. She has a biology degree from the University of Colorado.

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ON VIEW Nov 3, 2020 – Feb 20, 2021 | East Gallery

MIDLANDS Works by Courtney McClellan

Courtney McClellan Midlands is a multimedia installation by Courtney McClellan, of Atlanta, that intersects art and performance with academic pursuits in the field of law.

Midlands, a multimedia installation by artist and writer Courtney McClellan, is the culmination of a three-year project that intersects art and performance with academic pursuits in the field of law. The exhibition, delayed from Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, opened Nov 3, 2020 in the Albany Museum of Art East Gallery and continues through Feb 20, 2021.

In creating the installation, McClellan first investigated and examined the structure of the UGA Mock Trial in which students acted as attorneys, jury and judges to work out complex legal problems in a fictional location called Midlands. “The resulting three-channel video installation visualizes and imagines this fictional land,” AMA Guest Curator Didi Dunphy said.

“I am interested in professionals who write and perform unstable truths,” McClellan said. “By this, I mean that I study people who act as gatekeepers in an age when truth is pluralistic, difficult to define, and/or nonexistent. Particularly today, these professionals are tasked with the impossible, but the necessary. I collaborate with attorneys, journalists, court reporters, law students and teachers in order to explore how their important but fallible actions offer grave, complex, transformative outcomes.”

Her research on the performance of rhetoric in institutional space led McClellan, of Atlanta, to study

the university’s mock trial team, which is nationally ranked.

The artwork from her study exists “at the intersection of media,” she said, adding they are “translations” between people and media. ” Through collaboration, research, and intermedia practice, I produce hybrids: performing objects, objectified text, and performative writing that I exhibit through scripted actions, sculptures, installations, and occasionally essays.”

McClellan, originally from Greensboro, N.C., has a B.A. in studio art, and journalism and mass communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A Fountainhead Fellow in the Sculpture and Extended Media Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, she was the Sculpture Fellow at UGA in 2015-17 and a Museum of Fine Arts Boston Traveling Fellow in 2017-18. Awarded the 2019-20 Roman J. Witt Residency at the University of Michigan, she will create Witness Lab, an interdisciplinary, collaborative project with Stamps School of Art students and faculty. She also is a 2019-20 Working Artist Project Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Her work will be included in Atlanta Biennial 2021, curated by Jordan Amerikani, at the Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta. Recently, she was named the 2021 Innovatorin-Residence at the Library of Congress.

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THE HEART OF THE AMA HAS RETURNED HOME On Oct 5, 2020 more than 1,350 objects in the AMA’s permanent collection were delivered to the AMA, and placed in the vaults. They had been cared for at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta since their abrupt departure immediately following the devastating storms and hurricane-force winds that tore open the roof of the AMA in January 2017.

The destruction was widespread in Albany and Southwest Georgia, with toppled trees, destroyed homes and businesses, and thousands without power for an extended period.

Quick action saved all of the permanent collection and the artworks in the exhibitions that were underway at the time. As soon as museum officials and volunteers were able to get to the AMA, the work began to secure and protect the art objects.

Artworks that needed conservation were transported to Chicago’s Conservation Center after a team of conservators flew to Albany the day after the storm. Artworks that were undamaged were taken to the High Museum of Art, where they safely resided for three years and nine months.

Albany Museum of Art Executive Director Andrew J. Wulf, Ph.D., stands with High Museum of Art Senior Registrar Frances R. Francis on Oct 5 as AMA artworks were loaded for their return to Albany that afternoon.

“These collections form the heart of the AMA and are symbolic of the universal human creative impulse,” AMA Executive Director Andrew J. Wulf, Ph.D., said. “They are in one sense the treasures we safeguard for the enjoyment by thousands of visitors through the decades of the life of this marvelous institution. Yet they also serve as a sometimes gentle, sometimes dramatic, catalyst for how this museum in particular serves its community: as a location of civil discourse, understanding and inclusion. These artworks remind us of how individuals envision their world and how we interact with one another. Art at its core serves up answers to the tough stuff of life.

“This was the part of the collection that did not need conservation

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treatment. By special arrangement, our expert colleagues at the High graciously stewarded our collection these last three years.”

Wulf was at the High as the permanent collection objects were placed into a truck for transport to Albany. The loading was supervised by High Senior Registrar Frances R. Francis.

“We are all so very thankful to the wonderful staff at the High Museum of Art and the Chicago Conservation Center for literally helping us weather through the storm,” Albany Museum of Art Board of Trustees President Alfreda Sheppard said. “While our

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gratefulness is without measure, there truly is no place like home. The return of the permanent collection to Albany has been a long time coming, and we look forward to reintroducing the collection to our patrons, supporters, and friends of the AMA very soon.”

After the storms, the AMA was closed for nine months.

It reopened in August 2017 and has maintained a full slate of traveling exhibitions and programming in the three downstairs galleries since. The AMA utilized grants to repair and upgrade its art storage facilities to allow for the return of the collection. During the COVID shutdown, the AMA’s upstairs offices and the children’s activity space were renovated and reopened in late June. Most recently, the upstairs McCormack Gallery reopened on Nov 3.

A date has not been set for the return of the portion of the permanent collection that is in Chicago.

James Hamilton, Dangerous Shore, 1869-70, oil on canvas, 86.012.001. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Smith.

DANGEROUS SHORE IS THE FIRST TO RETURN HOME After the devastating storm of Jan 2, 2017 forced the Albany Museum of Art to find safe havens for its permanent collection, it was fitting that the James Hamilton painting Dangerous Shore, which depicts the overwhelming power of nature, was the first artwork in the collection to re-enter the AMA on Oct 5. It, along with more than 1,350 objects, had been stored at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta since the storm.

Hamilton (1819-78) was born in Belfast, Ireland, and immigrated to the U.S. at age 15. A follower of James Mallord William Turner, a leading painter of English Romanticism in the 19th century, Hamilton was primarily known for his dramatic seascapes inspired by shoreline from New York to Maryland.

Dangerous Shore is a prime example of Romantic landscape painting. Its fascination with natural

phenomena like weather, the tragic subject of a shipwreck, interest in exotic locales, and celebration of the destructive power and beauty of nature are all qualities found in Romantic art. Its dramatic lighting and vigorous brushwork are also hallmarks of Romantic painting.

Hamilton, known for writing extensive information on the back of his works and gaining inspiration from literary sources, wrote lines from the fourth canto of Lord Byron’s epic poem, “The Island” on the back of the piece. The lines read: “A Haunt of Birds, a desert to mankind…

“A spot to make the saved regret the deck “which late went down and envy the lost wreck.”

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ON VIEW Nov 3 2020 - Feb 20, 2021 | McCormack Gallery

GEORGIA ARTISTS GUILD OF ALBANY 27th Annual Juried Members Exhibition Eighteen artworks by nine Guild members have been entered in the competition. Participating artists are Meg Anderson, Madye Carter, Vicki Churchman, Patrick Foster, Edward Newcomb, Ray Pierotti, Mary Sumners, Jamie Towe and Chuck Ulm.

The 27th annual Georgia Artists Guild of Albany Juried members exhibition is on exhibition in the upstairs McCormack Gallery in the Albany Museum of Art. This is the first exhibition in the McCormack Gallery since the Jan 2, 2017 storms compromised the roof of the AMA. The gallery was renovated earlier this year.

The juror for the competition is Charles “Chazz�

Williams, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Albany State University. Williams, who joined ASU is 2004, is a professor of visual art, art appreciation and art history. He created the Arthur and Sylvia Berry Fund for the Visual and Performing Arts at ASU, and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to develop an interdisciplinary Museum and Heritage Studies minor program at the university. He earned his M.F.A. at Florida State University and serves on the Albany Museum of Art Board of Trustees.

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WHAT’S NEW DEADLINES SET FOR EDUCATORS AS ARTISTS The Educators as Artists exhibition originally scheduled to open in July 2020 has been rescheduled for March 4, 2021. The all-media exhibition will be juried

by Didi Dunphy, guest curator for the Albany Museum of Art. The deadline for submissions is 5 pm on Friday, Jan 22, 2021.

Faculty members at Albany State University, Albany Technical College, Columbus State University, Georgia Southwestern State University, Valdosta State University, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Andrew College, Thomas College and Tallahassee Community College are invited to enter. All media will be considered, and accepted submissions may be viewed online once the exhibition opens.

on Jan 22, 2021; The artist’s name, address, email, name of work(s) submitted, and contact phone number must be included in the email;

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College faculty members may submit up to two digital images of works for consideration.

Important dates for educators are: • Notification of acceptance: Friday, Feb 5, 2021 • Delivery of accepted work to the museum: Monday, Feb 22, 2021 • Exhibition opens: Thursday, March 4, 2021 Here are the guidelines for submissions: A digital image of the artwork should be submitted to entries@albanymuseum.com by 5 pm

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Each image must be in JPG format with the title of the work in the JPG name; Each entry must be for an original work of the artist; An artist may submit two entries; 2D works may not exceed 36 inches in any direction and must be installation ready. 3D works may not exceed 48 inches in any direction. Work must be under 100 pounds and installation ready.

If submitted work requires specific media, all media must be included. If there are special handling instructions, these must be included in the submission; There is no entry fee; Each work exhibited is at the discretion of the AMA; Entries submitted without complete information will be disqualified; The artist is responsible for delivery and pick up. If shipping, the artist must arrange for return postage.

MISS AN EXHIBITION? SEE IT ONLINE The Albany Museum of Art is creating online virtual tours of exhibitions. If you would like to revisit a favorite exhibition or see what you missed, you can find 2020 shows online at the AMA website and on its various social media outlets.

Find AMA exhibitions beginning with Spring 2020

shows at: www.albanymuseum.com/past-exhibition (click on the exhibition you want to see) www.facebook.com/AlbanyMuseumOfArt/videos www.instagram.com/albanymuseum/channel The Albany Museum of Art YouTube channel

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STAFF CHANGES AT THE AMA

Deandrea Moore and Cheryl Hendricks

Quintavian Andrus

Randi Hooks

There are old and new faces at the Albany Museum of Art, which has seen staff additions since the museum reopened from the COVID-19 shutdown earlier this year.

“Due to COVID-19, I was able to take advantage of the university’s online learning options. My AMA family welcomed me back with open arms. I was thrilled to rejoin the team.”

Randi Hooks has rejoined the Albany Museum of Art staff, resuming her duties as director of operations.

Cheryl Hendricks and Deandrea Moore have joined in part-time roles at the museum’s front desk. Quintavian Andrus, who began an internship in late summer, left at the end of October to join the U.S. Army.

Moore and Hendricks joined the staff in August. They handle visitor services, perform duties to support other staff, and are usually the welcoming voices you hear when you call the AMA.

Hooks returned to the AMA in September and is in charge of the physical facility, security and the rental of event space at the museum. She originally joined the AMA in late August 2017 and was director of operations when she left in May 2019 to return to college and pursue an international business degree.

“When I decided to continue my education at Valdosta State University, the international business curriculum was only offered on campus,” Hooks said.

“Unfortunately, I had to choose between a job I loved and a lifelong aspiration. Leaving the AMA was a tough decision, but I always had hoped to return.

Moore, a senior at Albany State University, is studying psychology with an eye toward a career as a rehabilitation counselor at a women’s prison. A native of Snellville, she moved to Albany in 2016.

Hendricks is a former deputy clerk of court at the Dougherty County Clerk of Courts Office. She retired in December 2015 after more than 30 years with the office to care for her mother.

Andrus, an Albany native who has spent the majority of his life in Louisiana and Florida, was a freshman majoring in computer science while he interned at the AMA. He began basic training in early November and plans to work in the information technology field.

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DEVELOPMENT & MEMBERSHIP ART WASHES AWAY THE DUST OF THE SOUL Who is ready to say goodbye to 2020? I am! It has been tough.

Our community and country have gone through a lot in the past year. I don’t think anyone will look back and say, “Gosh, 2020 was the best!”

I do think, however, that 2020 has taught us a tremendous amount about who we are and what our purpose here at the AMA is. We have learned that even if we are physically closed, people will still look to us for arts and culture.

This period has taught us to be creative and innovative. More than 17,000 people interacted with the AMA online during the pandemic, some of them from as far away as physically Sweden and South Korea.

Chloe Hinton Director of Development & Membership

This fall, we’ve gained 35 new members, and we’ve created new programs such as the virtual field trips for Dougherty County School System second-graders.

The AMA has truly made art accessible to everyone. So, when I look back at 2020, I am amazed by what we’ve been able to accomplish and the impact the AMA has had upon our community and beyond. As Pablo Picasso said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

2020 has been a dust storm, yet we’re making through. Art brings people together, inspires joy and provides hope.

We don’t know what 2021 holds, but we will do our best to inspire and bring joy to the community. We ask that you donate before the end of year to ensure we can create innovative programs and provide the high-quality exhibitions you have come to expect. Together we can make 2021 a better year!

Chloe Hinton, Director of Development & Membership

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EDUCATION & PROGRAMMING MUSEUMS MUST ENGAGE OUR VISITORS The Albany Museum of Art is an essential cultural institution nestled into the heart of Albany. If you live here, you have likely heard the name, and I hope you have stepped inside.

For museums everywhere, it is not enough to just exist. We must engage visitors, create brave spaces that encourage critical conversation and community development. We must foster critical thinking, tolerance, and empathy from our youngest visitors to our oldest friends.

Annie Vanoteghem Director of Education & Public Programming

Museum educators must provide an inclusive space for all visitors to become grounded in art, grow in self-awareness and confidence, and form their unique worldview. When any visitor is welcomed in an art museum, they are given a chance to connect, understand and explore perceptions, feelings, and innovative thoughts. They are given a space to practice self-reflection and experimentation.

Visitors of all ages are provided materials for the creative expression and inspiration necessary for authentic learning experiences and exploration. Simply exhibiting works of art will not ensure that all who visit the AMA will be exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and community conversation. It is the role of the educators, docents and volunteers, as well as other community members, to be sure each visitor of the AMA leaves feeling fulfilled, refreshed, inspired, and more aware of the world around them.

This year has presented us all with hardships, but with those have come amazing opportunities. The AMA is growing its reach into our beloved community, spreading some light and inspiration past our walls. We are now able to bring exhibitions, artist discussions, field trips and other opportunities to folks right in their own homes.

This winter, AMA’s Teen Art Board will be working together on a special outreach project that will provide art supplies for all children at Liberty House of Albany. It is one of many ways that we strive to inspire and create stronger community through art. We welcome all members of the community to become involved and discover ways that you, too, can make a difference!

Annie Vanoteghem, Director of Education & Programming

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FOR KIDS TODDLER TAKEOVER Tuesdays | Dec 1 | Jan 5 | Feb 2 | 10:30 -11 am Toddler Takeover is a 30-minute program designed for children ages 18 months through 3 years and their caregivers. It also is sibling friendly, so bring brother or sister along as well. Sessions begin at 10:30 am.

incorporates monthly themes with related artwork, art-making activities, stories, and tours. The theme for Dec 1, Makin’ Murals Big and Bright, is inspired by On the Wall now on view in the Haley Gallery.

Toddler Takeover engages children’s creativity and

COST: Free for AMA members, $5 for future members.

HOMESCHOOL DAY Thursdays | Dec 10 | Jan 14 | Feb 11 | 11 am – 12:30 pm Our monthly Homeschool Day is geared toward homeschooled students in K-5th grade, but children of all ages can participate in this STEAM education art-making workshop.

Each program focuses on an aspect of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) and incorporates a current AMA exhibition. Sessions include projects, gallery tours and more. Upcoming

themes are based on the On the Wall mural exhibition in the Haley Gallery on Dec 10 and the Midlands multimedia installation in the East Gallery on Jan 14.

Space is limited to ensure the best experience. Please register your student by emailing Annie Vanoteghem at annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com.

COST: $5 for AMA members, $10 for future members.

LIBBY WOMACK HOLIDAY WORKSHOP Monday, Dec 21 – Wednesday, Dec 23 | Full Day: 9 am-4 pm | Half Day: 9 am-noon or 1-4 pm Named in honor of the late Libby Womack, an educator who strongly supported the arts in education and who served on the AMA Board of Trustees, the annual Libby Womack Holiday Workshop taps into children’s creative minds at an always magical time of year—the lead-in days to Christmas.

Campers K-7th grade can spend all day (9 am – 4 pm) at the AMA, or they come in for morning (9 am – noon) or afternoon (1 -4 pm) sessions. While kids are out of school, we know parents may be working so we offer free drop-off at 8 am and late pick-up at 5 pm.

The number of campers will be limited to 12 because of health guidelines, so sign up your young artist while space is available for this popular camp. Email annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400 to register.

COST PER DAY: $30 full day or $20 half day for AMA members; $40 full day or $30 half day for future members.

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PARENTS HOLIDAY RECOVERY CAMP Monday, Dec 28 – Wednesday, Dec 30 | Full Day: 9 am - 4 pm | Half Day: 9 am - noon or 1 - 4 pm Christmas will be over, but the kids still will be out of school. How do you keep them engaged and entertained before school resumes? The AMA Parents Holiday Recovery Camp is a perfect solution for working parents, and parents who just need a little quiet time to themselves after weeks of noisy holiday fun.

Campers K-7th grade can spend all day (9 am – 4 pm) at the AMA, or they come in for morning (9 am – noon) or afternoon (1 -4 pm) sessions. We offer free

drop-off at 8 am and late pick-up at 5 pm.

The number of campers will be limited to 12 because of health guidelines, so sign up your young artist while space is available for this popular camp. Email annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400 to register.

COST PER DAY: $30 full day or $20 half day for AMA members; $40 full day or $30 half day for future members.

AMERICAN GIRL WINTER TEA PARTY Saturday | Jan 16 | 2 - 4 pm | Willson Auditorium Grab your best friend, dress up and join your friends at the 2nd annual AMA American Girl Winter Tea Party 2 – 4 pm on Saturday, Jan 16. It’ll be the social event of the season for kids!

The tea party is for girls and boys, and their “best friends,” whether they’re dolls (they don’t have to be American Girl dolls), action figures or stuffed animals.

The tea will be served in tea cups and there will be delicious treats as well. Kids will be able to make matching bracelets for themselves and their best friends, and there will be other fun projects and activities at this memory-in-the-making event.

Because of health guidelines, we anticipate that the tea party will be limited to 12 children (each may bring one parent). Email annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400 to register.

COST: $20 for AMA members, $25 for future members (the child’s doll and parent attend for free!)

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FOR TEENS AND ADULTS WREATH & BOWS FUNSHOPS Saturday | Dec 5 | 10 am-noon, Albany Museum of Art | 5-7 pm, Pretoria Fields Collective The Thanksgiving leftovers are gone and Christmas is coming quickly! Make the prettiest sight you see be the wreath that’s hanging on your own front door by creating yours at one of the AMA’s Wreaths & Bows Funshops. (This is guaranteed to get you in the holiday spirit, so we couldn’t bring ourselves to call them workshops!)

Both classes are on Saturday, Dec 5. The morning funshop is 10 am-noon in the AMA Classroom. The evening funshop is 6-8 pm at Pretoria Fields Brewery, 120 Pine Ave. Tricia Moreschi will teach you how to create your wreath from fresh Christmas greenery. You’ll also learn how to create full, beautiful Christmas bows to accent your wreath and special gifts.

We expect each of these funshops to be limited to 12 participants, so registration is required. Reserve your place by calling 229.439.8400 or email annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com.

COST: $15 for AMA members and $20 for future members

ART OF MEDITATION Sundays | Dec 6 | Jan 3 | Feb 7 | 8 pm | AMA Facebook Page Albany Yoga Project and the Albany Museum of Art offer relaxing way to start your week—and month— with Art of Meditation. The online sessions are led by Albany Yoga Project facilitators and are broadcast live at 8 pm on the first Sunday night of the month on the Albany Museum of Art's Facebook page.

Each month, an Albany Yoga Project facilitator will help you shake off the stress that can build up over days and weeks, reinvigorating you for facing the challenges of everyday life. You can find the page at www.facebook/com/AlbanyMuseumOfArt.

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YOGA IN THE GALLERY Thursdays | Dec 3 | Jan 7 | Feb 4 | 6-7 pm | Haley Gallery You can stretch out your art experience every month when the AMA partners with Albany Yoga Project for Yoga in the Gallery. Join us at 6 pm on the first Thursday of the month in the Haley Gallery for a unique backdrop for your yoga session.

No registration or RSVP is required. Each participant is

welcome to “come as you are” to the session. Extra mats also will be available if someone forgets to bring one. Facilitators ask that participants be in place and ready to begin promptly at 6 pm.

There is no admission charge, but a $7 donation is suggested to support AMA and AYP programs.

AMA ART LOVERS BOOK CLUB Tuesday | Jan 19 | 6 pm | Willson Auditorium In the penultimate club meeting of the second season of the AMA Art Lovers Book Club at 6 pm on Tuesday, Jan 19, the club will discuss In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage, a biography by Alan Schroeder.

The biography looks at the life of Savage (1892-1962), an American sculptor and teacher who was associated with the Harlem Renaissance. A tireless worker for equal rights in the arts for African Americans, her studio influenced a generation of nationally famous artists.

With most of her work in clay and plaster, Savage endured the economic setbacks of the Great Depression. During the World War II era, she moved to Saugerties, N.Y., where she wrote children’s stories and

taught children’s art classes. The locations of much of her work are unknown, but her most famous piece, a bust titled Gamin, is on permanent display in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Because of health guidelines, space is limited to a maximum of 12 participants. There is no cost and participants may attend as many or as few club meetings as they like. Email annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400 to reserve your place.

The final meeting of the second series is March 16, which will focus on Living Frank by Nancy Horan. Club members at the meeting also will suggest selections for the third series that opens in May.

VISUAL VERBAL JOURNAL WORKSHOPS Saturdays | Jan 23 | Jan 30 | 2-4 pm Have you ever kept a visual verbal journal? Artists and others have used them to experiment with as well as realize inspiration from their pages.

bank for the future. The visual imagery can support the text, and the text can support the visual imagery.

It’s all in the hands of the journalist.

In a pair of Saturday afternoon workshops on Jan 23 and 30, Deerfield-Windsor School art teacher Noelle Petersen will guide you on keeping a visual verbal journal that can be used for brainstorming, generating ideas, research, exploration, reflection or as an idea

Contact annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400 to register.

COST: Each session is $15 for AMA members, $20 for future members

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COME HEAR A WORK OF ART WITH THE ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday | Feb 6 | 5 pm | Haley Gallery | AMA and ASO members only Sunday | Feb 7 | 2 pm | Haley Gallery | Open to public Visual and musical art come together on the weekend of Feb 6-7 as the Haley Gallery is transformed into a concert venue for the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

The Come Hear a Work of Art! Concert will be for AMA and Albany Symphony members only at 5 pm on Saturday, Feb 6. A matinee at 2 pm on Sunday, Feb 7 will be open to the public.

An ensemble of string and harp musicians will be under the direction of ASO Conductor and Music Director Claire Fox Hillard, who has selected two compositions inspired by the visual arts to be featured on the program. The first, by French composer Jean Franciax, is titled 15 Portraits of Children, which is composed of 15 short movements, each based on a specific portrait by Auguste Renoir.

The second, by living American composer TJ Cole, is titled, Death of the Poet. The work is inspired by the Conrad Felixmuller painting Death of the Poet Walter Rheiner. Cole is a Philadelphia-based composer from the suburbs of Atlanta whose works may be familiar to regular ASO concertgoers. In 2018, the Albany Symphony performed her work Double Play.

Rounding out the Museum concert will be several lush Romantic selections for harp and strings, all conducted by Maestro Hillard.

Seating at each concert is limited to 50 people. Tickets may be purchased online at albanymuseum.com/symphony-concert.

COST: $25 per person.

VALENTINE MAKERS NIGHT Thursday | Feb 11 | 5:30 pm | AMA Classroom As Valentine’s Day gets closer, many of us are still searching for that perfect gift that will let someone know he or she is special. This time, you can ensure that your gift is unique and heartfelt by making it yourself at the AMA’s Valentine Makers Night.

with the perfect Valetine’s Day gift for your loved one.

You also can make it a date night with that special someone and bring a favorite beverage for the class, or bring friends for a galentine event.

COST: $15 for AMA members, $20 for future members.

You’ll enjoy creating in community as you come up

ELI SARAGOUSSI ARTIST WORKSHOP Saturday | Feb 20 | 10 am | AMA Classroom If you have visited artist and musician Elinor Saragoussi’s Escape Plan installation on view in the AMA’s West Gallery, you have seen the fanciful, peculiar denizens that occupy this fantastic micro-universe she has created.

At 10 am on Saturday, Feb 20, Saragoussi will facilitate your own journey through the creative places in your mind where unrealized universes exist. Fuel your own

imagination and create your own creatures at this workshop for all age groups. Who knows what you’ll be inspired to create?

To register, email annie.vanoteghem@albanymuseum.com or call 229.439.8400.

COST: $20 for AMA members, $25 for future members.

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AT A GLANCE DECEMBER

16: American Girl Winter Tea Party, 2 – 4 pm

1: Toddler Takeover, 10:30 – 11 am

19: AMA Art Lovers Book Club, 6 pm

3: Yoga in the Gallery, 6 -7 pm

23: Visual Verbal Journal workshop with Noelle Petersen, 2 – 4 pm

5: Wreaths & Bows Morning Funshop, 10 am, AMA 5: Wreaths & Bows Evening Funshop, 6 pm, Pretoria Fields Collective 6: Art of Meditation, 8 pm, AMA Facebook Live

30: Visual Verbal Journal workshop with Noelle Petersen, 2 – 4 pm

10: Homeschool Day, 11 am – 12:30 pm

FEBRUARY

21-23: Libby Womack Holiday Workshop, 9 am – 4 pm

2: Toddler Takeover, 10:30 – 11 am

28-30: Parents Holiday Recovery Camp, 9 am – 4 pm

6: Albany Symphony Orchestra Evening Concert, 5 pm, Haley Gallery (AMA and ASO members only)

JANUARY

7: Albany Symphony Orchestra Matinee Concert, 2 pm, Haley Gallery (open to public)

3: Art of Meditation, 8 pm, AMA Facebook Live

7: Art of Meditation, 8 pm, AMA Facebook Live

5: Toddler Takeover, 10:30 – 11 am

11: Homeschool Day, 11 am – 12:30 pm

7: Yoga in the Gallery, 6 pm

11: Valentine Makers Night, 5:30 pm

14: Homeschool Day, 11 am – 12:30 pm

20: Artist Workshop with Eli Saragoussi, 10 am

4: Yoga in the Gallery, 6 pm